Writing Spec

Business

writing-spec

Writing Spec is an Agent Skill for business published in the streamlit/streamlit repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Writes product and tech specs for new Streamlit features. Use when designing new API commands, widgets, or significant changes that need team review before implementation.

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How to use this skill

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Prompt to paste

Inspect the Agent Skill at https://github.com/streamlit/streamlit/blob/HEAD/.claude/skills/writing-spec/SKILL.md and all supporting files. Report provenance, permissions, scripts, dependencies, and security risks. Propose an exact installation into .agents/skills/writing-spec, but wait for my approval before writing files or running scripts.

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Writing product or tech specs

Create specs in the specs/ directory following the instructions in specs/AGENTS.md. Use the user's instructions as the basis for the spec.

Quick start:

cp -r specs/YYYY-MM-DD-template specs/$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-feature-name

Then fill in product-spec.md and/or tech-spec.md per the template and guidelines.